Fisherites

Fisherites

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ReceptaculitidaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Receptaculitidae

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 13 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 4 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.8 Mya – 449.6 Mya488 Mya418 Mya

13 occurrences of Fisherites on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

13 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Farr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.48°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WLake Waswanipi Limestone — 49.47°N, 76.47°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WEly Springs — 36.39°N, 115.47°WTakche — 32.27°N, 77.41°E

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The named rock units Fisherites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fisherites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Fisherites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Fisherites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

6 references

Each of the 13 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Fisherites

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itReceptaculitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finney and Nitecki 1979